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Why The Walking Dead Is About to Look at Lot More Like Game of Thrones

In among all the excitement around Negan’s arrival, The Walking Dead slipped another big Season 7 set-up into this year’s finale. At the end of their storyline, Carol and Morgan encountered two men wearing padded armor. We met one of them last week but now we know he’s not just an eccentric post-apocalyptic outlier. These pseudo-knights are members of another eccentric new Walking Dead settlement called The Kingdom. Spoilers from the comics and potential Season 7 spoilers to come!

In the comics, The Kingdom is a huge settlement—second only to the Hilltop Colony—that makes their home part-time in a high school. The Kingdom, like the Hilltop Colony, is run by an eccentric leader. He’s named Ezekial and I hope you’ll cross your gainers along with me that his pet tiger from the comics makes its way into the AMC series. Either way, things are about to get very medieval.

As if the cliffhanger Season 6 finale didn’t make The Walking Dead seem enough like Game of Thrones, Season 7 may see the knights of The Kingdom join up with Alexandria and the Hilltop Colony to fight Negan and the Saviors. Vengeance at the hands of knights on horseback? Be still our Westeros-loving hearts. And as Dustin Rowles on Uproxx points out, the knights are willing to help Carol and Morgan (and maybe eventually Rick and company) because Morgan spared one of theirs last week. So maybe this confusing Morgan/Carol plot line will pay off! But you’ll have to wait until next year to find out.